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Wealthiest Black Americans, 2012

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:43:29 -0400

Wealthiest Black Americans, 2012

Mavis Spencer is Alfre Woodard’s daughter, a champion...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:38:07 -0400

Mavis Spencer is Alfre Woodard’s daughter, a champion equestrian, and Miss Golden Globe 2010.

Mavis Spencer Twitter:@MaviSpen

Shayla Wilson, 2008 graduate of Virginia Intermont College and...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:03:00 -0500

Shayla Wilson, 2008 graduate of Virginia Intermont College and first African-American on the school’s equestrian team.

See her ride at the 2010 Flintridge Event Derby, or read her features in the College’s news and in Onyx Magazine.

Photo captions: Top: Howard University alumni – all DC Mariners...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:02:16 -0500

Photo captions: Top: Howard University alumni – all DC Mariners or Oyster Harbor Boat Club Members – Preparing to join the Homecoming Capitol Classic Parade on LeiLani, built by Bob Martin in the 1950s.Above left: Martin works on Natatchia III, his 42-foot Owens in 1984.Center: Lewis Green. Right: Martin’s friend Delores Fox in 1961. Photo Credit: Vintage photos courtesy of Bob Martin’s Collection. Green photo courtesy of Seafarers Yacht Club.

The Ebony Horsewomen founded their group in 1984, and are...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:28:43 -0500

The Ebony Horsewomen founded their group in 1984, and are headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut.

legrandcirque: Portrait of Gloria Hixon, zoology professor at...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:53:49 -0500

legrandcirque:

Portrait of Gloria Hixon, zoology professor at Howard University. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Washington, DC, USA, January 1946.

Rochelle Wiseman is a member of the English girl pop group The...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:10:07 -0500

Rochelle Wiseman is a member of the English girl pop group The Saturdays, and an alumna of the Frances Bardsley School for girls.

Rochelle & her fiance, Marvin Humes, are engaged in Antigua and hit the town after New Year’s.

Sample: The Saturdays’ Music.

consciouscompany: join the club. the BLACK IVY

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:17 -0500

consciouscompany:

join the club. the BLACK IVY

Oak Bluffs, Ma. - Where the Black Elite Summer (Washington Post, 2009)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:26:44 -0500

Oak Bluffs, Ma. - Where the Black Elite Summer (Washington Post, 2009)

African American Community Blasts Magazine Article: A Response to Touré (The Vineyard Gazette, 2009)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:24:00 -0500

African American Community Blasts Magazine Article: A Response to Touré (The Vineyard Gazette, 2009)

The Other Detroit (The Atlantic, 2011)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:53:58 -0500

The Other Detroit (The Atlantic, 2011)

"It so happens that Wentworth Miller found himself in a similar jam when he was in college. As a..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:42:17 -0500

“

It so happens that Wentworth Miller found himself in a similar jam when he was in college. As a junior at Princeton, in 1994, he published, in the Daily Princetonian, a cartoon featuring Cornel West, who was then a professor of African-American studies there but who had just been hired away by Harvard.The cartoon depicted Muffy, a white Harvard student, imagining her first class with West, who is saying, “Today’s lecture is entitled, ‘Rhythm—Why None of You Have It, and How You Can Get It.’ ” It also described West as “newly purchased,” which is academe-speak for a new hire.

This did not go over well—“newly purchased” was taken to be a reference to slavery—and within days the paper had run angry letters signed by dozens of students and faculty members, including the novelist Toni Morrison, symposia had been convened, and the school had been plunged into one of those predictable convulsions of recrimination and argument. The story made the Times, and Wentworth Miller, who everyone assumed was white, was transformed into a controversial figure: the campus bigot.

”

- Central Casting: The Race Card, New Yorker, 2003

The Black Elite in America (Edwardian Promenade [blog], 2011)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:47:29 -0500

The Black Elite in America (Edwardian Promenade [blog], 2011)

Obama and the Black Elite (Forbes, 2009)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:44:30 -0500

Obama and the Black Elite (Forbes, 2009)

Donald Glover again - this time, for Band of Outsiders in Spring...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:38:02 -0500

Donald Glover again - this time, for Band of Outsiders in Spring 2010.

Donald Glover in GQ

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:27:18 -0500

Donald Glover in GQ

"Chucky, who lives a stone’s throw away from Martha’s Vineyard, mentioned that the same [reverse..."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:26:00 -0500

“Chucky, who lives a stone’s throw away from Martha’s Vineyard, mentioned that the same [reverse gentrification] thing had been happening recently there. The Mom, being the little fireplug that she is, argued that we shouldn’t let them drive us out; rather, we should stand fast against the tide and rally forth. We should take back this beach from these trespassers! It was a stump speech worthy of Winston Churchill. I invited her to stay around in that case. To which she replied, ‘I don’t need to be around these ghetto people. Tennis is on. I’m going home.’”

- Brandon St. Randy, the hilarious and exceedingly clever author of the (NSFW) blog The Bad Life, in his two-part post:

Class Warfare, Part I: Our Kind of People vs. You All & Class Warfare, Part II: Why Everyone Hates the ‘Black Elite’

Black and White on Martha's Vineyard (New York Magazine, 2009)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:17:25 -0500

Black and White on Martha's Vineyard (New York Magazine, 2009)

Leonard Burnett is the founder of Uptown Magazine, and former...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:20:59 -0500

Leonard Burnett is the founder of Uptown Magazine, and former editor-in-chief of Vibe.

Read an interview with him: So What Do You Do, Leonard Burnett?

Black Like Us: A Review of 'Our Kind of People' (New York Times Book Review, 1999)

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:52:57 -0500

Black Like Us: A Review of 'Our Kind of People' (New York Times Book Review, 1999)